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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Deserted Island with Rachel from Fiktshun!!!

Weekly
Feature here at Snowdrop Dreams of Books where authors and bloggers
share what five books and what five other items they would want with
them if they were ever stuck on a deserted island and why they chose
them. Some posts are serious, some are extremely silly and some are
mixture. Check back every week to see what your favourite authors and
bloggers would pick. Click here if you would like to participate.

I was so super excited when Rachel from Fiktshun said yes to being a part of my feature. I adore her blog and it made me day to know she wanted to be a part of this! Thanks Rachel!

Thank you so much for the invitation to
your awesome feature. I love the idea and am so excited to be able to
share my five deserted island books and items. And I promise not to
cheat by counting a series as one book.(Most of the books have various covers.
I included the ones that were my favorites.)

What 5 books would you want with
you if stuck on a deserted island and why?

Stephen King is and always will be my
favorite author of all time and this fourth book in his amazing
series will always be my favorite. It’s epic with a touch of high
fantasy. It’s the story that visits the main character, Roland
Deschain’s past in Gilead and it’s the only book in the series I
could read over and over again as a standalone if I weren’t able to
save all the other books.

I re-read this book every year and I
could not survive a lifetime on a deserted island without it. It’s
haunting and grim and while it seems simple on its face it’s got so
many layers that just keep surprising me year after year.

I read this story as a child many, many
times. And I read it as an adult. It’s a beautiful and
heartbreaking story and one that is near and dear to me. If I was
stuck on a deserted island it would also remind me not to give up,
not to lose hope and to be courageous.

(Of course if I was allowed to land on
the island with my Kindle which happened to be solar powered you can
bet I’d want to have ALL my 1700+ books.)

What 5 things/items would you
want with you if stuck on a deserted island and why?

I am going to assume that the island is
one that has at least a few palm trees, like the one depicted in your
graphic, that it is sandy and warm and that there is some sort of
food source or any of the items I picked would be fairly irrelevant.

A plastic container with a lid
that would allow me to catch water when it rains and store it so
that it won’t all evaporate during the day.

A blanket or sleeping bag. Whether
sun or rain I want to have something other than my clothes to cover
myself with. Especially during mosquito season. Also helpful to have
when washing my clothes.

A toothbrush. While I’m sure I
could fashion something out of a tree, the idea of living with
sweaters on my teeth makes me ill. It’s why I’m not quite so
fond of fictional pirate stories. Their teeth. *shudders.*

A 1,000
count box of wooden kitchen matches. Because I’ll never be able to
rub two sticks together and produce fire. Though as a vegetarian, on
a warm island, without the ability to make s’mores I’m not
entirely sure what I’d need fire for.

Pen and paper because if I were
stuck on a deserted island what better way to spend it than trying
to write a few novels that I never seem to have time to write in
real life.

(Of course if the deserted island was
one in which there was an abandoned hotel with running water and
electricity I’d swap the pen and paper for a laptop and the blanket
for my Kindle and the plastic container for my iPhone. I’d still
want the matches because no matter how big a kitchen you can never
seem to find a box of matches when you need it.)

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